Take time to THINK - It is the source of all power

Over the course of the next 10 days I am going to blog a line from a poem I posted earlier today called 'Take Time', the poem is relevant to us more so now, as we have little time and very little consideration of what we do, so, maybe with a little nudge in the right direction we will start to take more notice of the things we take for granted in this day and age.

Take Time to Think - It is the source of all power

We think everyday, think about what we are going to wear, think about how much we need on our oyster card, think about what we are going to have for lunch, but our thoughts are not or rarely do make us the productive beings we ought to be. Perhaps, 'thought' and 'power' are not generally accepted as inter-related, how relevant is thought to gaining the success we desire? In recent years, more authors have brought forward the idea of thought being the driving force in the universe.

We wake up everyday desiring something, that desire must be fuelled by something, could that something be thought? It is widely accepted that things we need and want are driven by our thoughts. When we focus on something we have in our head as a want or need, that thought then becomes a strong urge, a desire; A desire to have that Giorgio Armani dress or Cartier watch, the desire to have it then feeds our will to get it which in turn feeds the action that leads us to finding a way to purchase it. "The DESIRE feeds the WILL, the will feeds the ACTION."

Thought feeds the desire. The desire feeds the will. The will feeds the action.

Imagine then, if we used our thinking power to desire more than material things, how much more productive would your life be? How much more happiness would be found?

There are methods of 'thinking' that have been introduced to improve the way we see our thoughts and make use of them. Much of western thought processes is designed with the sole purpose of proving one's point, to get one's angle on something approved above all others. Recent studies suggest that these methods of thought are counter-productive, how can we ever come to an agreement if we are all standing at different angles of the same house proclaiming to have the best view?

Recent research on thinking methods have shown that progressive thinking or parallel thinking produces better results in shorter spaces of time. Parallel thinking has been pushed into the limelight by Edward De Bono's thinking methodology called 'The Six Thinking Hats'.

We know that when two warring countries declare a truce, it was only possible because they were, at any one point, thinking in the same direction and responding to each others view on things, with the understanding that co-operation would end the suffering of their respective peoples. De Bono's Six Thinking Hats concept widely encourages this kind of thinking, it encourages us to look at a problem in six different angles before deciding the best way to go about rectifying it. THINKING and FEELINGS are two entirely unrelated aspects of our beings, yet, in this day and age our thoughts are driven by our feelings, and this can lead to biased opinions, flawed decisions and broken relationships, it ALL begins with thought, it is the SOURCE OF ALL POWER.